Laurenne / Louhimo - 'To The Wall' (official music video)

Look in the mirror and say you don’t feel it
You’re somehow stuck in yourself
The words you hesitate kinda reveal it
You’ve been brought up believing in what others tell

So many years were lost focused on pleasing
The ones who don’t understand
You gotta know by now their only seizing
’Cause their dreading what happens
If they take a stand

We’ve been fooled in believing
We’re somehow wrong
I’m overruling that notion
Because we are strong

We’re heading to the wall
Firestarters on a call
We’re gonna fight ’til we all are free
We’re gonna break the ties
Refuse to listen lies
It’s time to be who we’re born to be

After you recognize all of the shackles
You have been dragging along
Feeling betrayed you may get up your hackles
But you gotta hold on
To the sense of right and wrong

We’ve been fooled in believing
We’re somehow wrong
I’m overruling that notion
Because we are strong

We’re heading to the wall
Firestarters on a call
We’re gonna fight ’til we all are free
We’re gonna break the ties
Refuse to listen lies
It’s time to be who we’re born to be

We are much more than we know
It’s time we let all of it show

We’ve been fooled in believing
We’re somehow wrong
I’m overruling that notion
Because we are strong

We’re heading to the wall
Firestarters on a call
We’re gonna fight ’til we all are free
We’re gonna break the ties
Refuse to listen lies
It’s time to be who we’re born to be

You’ll see
You’ll see
You see

Την πρωτακούσαμε το 2008 στο τραγούδι των Dreamtale "No Angels No More" και στους Revolution Renaissance του Timo Tolkki (χορωδιακά φωνητικά στο μουσικό κομμάτι "Revolution Renaissance").

Ακολούθησαν το 2011 οι Amorphis ("The Beginning of Times") και οι Battle Beast (δεύτερα φωνητικά στα τραγούδια "Armageddon Clan", "Show Me How to Die"). Ο λόγος για την τραγουδίστρια και ηθοποιό Netta Laurenne, η οποία προ οκταετίας δημιούργησε τους Smackbound.

Η Noora Louhimo μας έρχεται επίσης από την Φινλανδία. Έγινε κυρίως γνωστή μέσω των Battle Beast, των οποίων την τραγουδίστρια αποτελεί από το 2012. Παράλληλα έχει εμφανισθεί -ως καλεσμένη (guest)- σε πληθώρα δίσκων συγκροτημάτων όπως οι Grave Digger, οι HammerFall, οι Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall, οι Crystal Ball, οι Heart Healer, οι Black Sun κλπ.

Προ τετραετίας, το 2019, οι δύο Φινλανδέζες τραγουδίστριες ένωσαν τις δυνάμεις τους δημιουργώντας το συγκρότημα Laurenne / Louhimo. Αποτέλεσμα της συνεργασίας τους ο δίσκος "The Reckoning" που κυκλοφόρησε πρόπερσι (Ιούλιος - Αύγουστος 2021). Στο album συμμετέχει μία... ντουζίνα προσκεκλημένων μουσικών!

Δελτίο τύπου: «The collaboration between powerhouse Finnish vocalists Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast) and Netta Laurenne (Smackbound) is easily one of the most exciting musical alliances ever put together by the Frontiers label.

The two ladies put together a storming melodic metal album with the collaboration of Nino Laurenne on guitars and Sampo Haapaniemi on drums.

Comments Netta Laurenne, "I’ve had the idea about a possible collaboration with Noora incubating for a few years. Once the pandemic started and cleared out calendars for both of us, it felt like a perfect time to reach out to Noora and start this project.

She is such a talented singer who masters various styles and on top of that, simply an awesome person. We are both initially from the same town, so it feels extra special to get us, two metal singers from Tampere, working together on an album full of kick ass metal.

This is also a collaboration with my husband, music producer, and guitarist (Thunderstone) Nino Laurenne, with whom I’ve written the songs for the album!"

Comments Noora Louhimo, "When Netta asked me to join in this project I was happily surprised. I had followed her as a singer for years and always admired her soulful and powerful vocals and her way of expressing herself.

Now that we have gotten to know each other a bit better through this project, it's been amazing to realise how much in common we have as singers and as people.

We both have similar idols and influences music wise and we both love singing with soul, blues, edge, and power. She's definitely my long lost soul sister and I'm super excited singing with her on an album filled with our explosive passion for music."»